Bethania Palma
Bethania Palma is a journalist from the Los Angeles area who started her career as a daily newspaper reporter and has covered everything from crime to local government to national politics. She has written for a variety of publications as a staffer and freelancer, including the Los Angeles News Group, the LAist, LA School Report, the OC Weekly and Raw Story. She earned a B.A. in political science from the University of California at Irvine and an M.A. in history from California State University at Northridge. When researching bizarre phenomena, she's holding out for the day when the conclusion will be, "Aliens did it."
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Dec. 22, 2016
A chilling video purportedly shows parents bidding their young daughters goodbye before a suicid ...
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Dec. 21, 2016
A local South African newspaper reported that a 3-month-old girl died when her mother left her a ...
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Dec. 21, 2016
Despite a freezing winter, hundreds of activists and Native Americans hunker down in a sustained ...
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Dec. 21, 2016
Albuquerque police said a 42-year-old man was found mutilated on a parking lot median, but not o ...
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Dec. 20, 2016
A Satanic display placed in the city's free speech area has been vandalized multiple times.
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Dec. 20, 2016
A controversy over the removal of a city hall nativity display in the Belgian town of Holsbeek s ...
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Dec. 19, 2016
A Pennsylvania shelter rescued and treated a calico cat with "pounds" of seriously matted fur.
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Dec. 19, 2016
A report that Donald Trump would travel to Russia's famed Red Square as part of his "victory tou ...
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Dec. 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton garnered 4.3 million more votes than Donald Trump in the nation's most populous ...
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Dec. 18, 2016
Craig Murray, described as a "close associate" of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, claims the l ...
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Dec. 16, 2016
Unnamed sources in a media report claim that Trump's team is having trouble booking inauguration ...
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Dec. 15, 2016
Law professor Larry Lessig claims that at least twenty Republican electors are considering aband ...
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Dec. 14, 2016 (Updated: April 30, 2017)
A nongovernmental search-and-rescue organization on the ground in Syria has drawn a lot of atten ...
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Dec. 14, 2016
A 2013 video shows a cargo plane crashing in Afghanistan.
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Dec. 13, 2016
The idea that victims of mass tragedies are "recycled" is a common theme among conspiracy theori ...
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Dec. 13, 2016
The fast food chain McDonald's has a new Nutella-filled pastry, but it's available only in Italy.
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Dec. 13, 2016
An agreement has been reportedly been reached to allow opposition forces and civilians to vacate ...
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Dec. 12, 2016
The quote originated on questionable blogs in 2015.
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Dec. 12, 2016
Multiple media outlets report the couple has called it quits, but their public statements say ot ...
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Dec. 9, 2016
During a speech at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida, President Obama said that Americans have t ...
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